September Cover Story by Caitlin Dickerson Exposes Secret History of Trump Administration's Family-Separation Policy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Dickerson reports that the deputy suggested that the Border Patrol deliver separated children from DHS to HHS at an accelerated pace, to minimize the chance that they would be returned to their parents.
46% : Within days of the start of Zero Tolerance, a deputy at ICE expressed concern that if the parents' prosecutions happened too swiftly, their children would still be waiting to be picked up by HHS in Border Patrol stations, making family reunification possible.
43% : White's efforts were ignored by members of agency leadership, including his politically appointed boss, Scott Lloyd, who now say they were predisposed to believe those in law enforcement who claimed that families were not being separated, or who were simply not paying attention to the agency's immigration portfolio because they were focused on other issues.

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